While I've highlighted three of the largest design projects I've worked on at Minerva Project over the course of this most recent chapter of my career, it represents only a fraction of the total work.
Here is a glimpse of some of the varying types product design challenges I've successfully delivered.
Project: Forum 2.0
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A complete redesign of the classroom experience, allowing classes to gracefully scale from a dozen to hundreds of students.
Project: Reactions: Rollup & Notifications
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A complete redesign of the classroom experience, allowing classes to gracefully scale from a dozen to hundreds of students.
Project: Quick-Display Dashboard
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A way for the instructor to rapidly divide the stage into panes with keyboard shortcuts to select which student or resource goes in which.
Project: Pre-Class Experience
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A virtual "classroom hallway" experience where students could drag themselves around the screen to have private, spatial conversations.
Project: Chat Enhancements
Role: Lead Designer
Description: Featured to enhance chat in the classroom to allow for student/instructor private messaging, creating polls from chat, and a way to temporarily disable chat to bring attention to the classroom.
Project: System Check v1
Role: Lead Designer
Description: Designed the initial version of a comprehensive system check to see if the user's computer met system requirements.
Project: System Check v2
Role: Design Manager
Description: A more comprehensive system check with the ability to seamlessly toggle between different AV hardware.
Project: Scalable Seminar
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A hub and spoke classroom model that allowed for active learning classes of up to 400 students.
Project: Minerva Documents
Role: Lead Designer
Description: Custom, collaborative documents that allow for dynamic worksheets and coding exercises which can be assessed.
Project: Instructor notes
Role: Lead Designer
Description: Contextual notes from the lesson plan which can be displayed unobtrusively in class to the instructor.
Project: Breakout Control Room
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A way for the instructor to get a sense of student engagement across all active breakout groups, and specialized tools for student assistance.
Project: Professor Focus
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A way for the professor to virtually "stare" at an individual student to dial up academic pressure.
Project: Type-Ahead questions
Role: Lead Designer
Description: Allowed a student to raise their hand on a question they'd typed out ahead of time, allowing the professor to quickly scan it before inturrupting class.
Project: Debate Mode
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A way for two two students to debate a topic while the rest of the class judges their performance against a set of outcomes.
Project: Whiteboard
Role: Lead Designer
Description: Flexible drawing tools that allowed for collaborative markup of blank screens and uploaded resources, with advanced drawing tools and persmission controls.
Project: Forum Design System
Role: Design Manager
Description: Definition of all design assets into a shared library, consolidation of styles, addition of interactive components.
Project: Design Principles
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A set of design principles to help guide the design and product teams.
Project: LMS 1.0
Role: Lead Designer
Description: Creation of a proprietary learning management system, allowing for course, grade and assignment tracking.
Project: Outcome Index
Role: Lead Designer
Description: Alows for academic performance tracking against integrated learning outcomes across a student's program.
Project: Course Standing View
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A compact way for a student to quickly get a sense of where they stand in the course, across absences, late assignment submissions and makeup work.
Project: Public profiles
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A way for users to publically post profile information including interests, contact information and internship opportunities.
Project: Grading Dashboard
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A view allowing instructors to see how they're performing in the act of grading for all of their sections, compared against other instructors in the same college.
Project: Minerva Baccalaureate Redesign
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A redesign of the LMS in order for high school students to understand their academic expectations, and gamification elements to help improve their performance.
Project: Class Metrics
Role: Design Manager
Description: Allows partners and instructors to get visualized data on how their classes or sections from a performance and engagement point of view.
Project: Interactive Application
Role: Lead Designer
Description: Self directed college appliation with video interviews, cognition tests, and proctoring.
Project: Student Intranet
Role: Lead Designer, Design Manager
Description: A student intranet for Minerva Schools students designed and built from scratch.
Project: Student Information System
Role: Design Manager
Description: A custom student information system that provided advisers with a audit view of how the student is doing so they can help students plan their course loads and graduate timely.
Project: Prepare
Role: Design Manager
Description: A product to allow students legally, culturally and financially prepare for each city on their global trek through their four years.
Project: Degree Planner
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A product that allows MSKGI students to effeciently plan their four year academic program.
Project: Registrar Site
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A site that allowed students to easily access to term reports, transcripts and academic forms.
Project: Poll Assessments
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A way to assess long form student answers to polls. Allowed for detailed as well as triage grading. Also included blind and TA grading
Project: Blind Grading
Role: Lead Designer
Description: Features to allow instructors to grade without knowing the identity of the student for equity purposes.
Project: TA Grading
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A feature that allowed student TAs to grade their peers feedback which included an approval loop so that instructors could oversee all of the work.
Project: Feedback Tool
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A way for faculty to provide structured feedback on a lesson plan they just gave assessments on in order to improve it for the subsequent term.
Project: Approval Engine
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A way for deans to review courses and LPs and give feedback before approving into production.
Project: Commenting feature
Role: Lead Designer
Description: Allows for threaded, contextual conversations between colleagues developing syllabi and LPs.
Project: Templating
Role: Lead Designer
Description: A way to templative and reuse common activities and steps to speed up curriculum development.
Project: Student Orientation
Role: Lead Designer
Description: Designed and taught a student orientation course to teach incoming MSKGI freshmen how to learn on Forum.
Project: Faculty Orientation
Role: Lead Designer
Description: Designed and taught a faculty orientation course to teach incoming MSKGI instructors how to effectively teach using Forum.
Project: Help Center
Role: Lead Designer
Description: Wrote the initial collection of suport articles and created video walkthroughs.
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